Proust and his masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, will be my obsession, fixation, demon, cattle prod, hobby and motivator in 2007. Will reading Proust, thinking about the man and his milieu and his great novel inform my writing?

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Practically everyone who is anyone in the literary world is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way, probably the most accessible volume in the Proust pantheon. Read about it here:

Sunday, October 06, 2013

Just to keep you 100% informed on all things Proust this month, Highbrow Magazine has a Proust article. Don't you just love that name? Wonder if there has ever been a Lowbrow Magazine. Well, how about People and all the celebrity dreck that graces the supermarket checkout line. Bizarre magazines and faux news only a lowbrow could read or love or even write. You will never see Proust on the cover of any of those scandal sheets.

Yet more interesting Proust news. Is there something in the air? Lake Forest College in the tony Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois is hosting a Proust event. If you're in the are next week and feel like partaking of Proust in academia, here is he information: Lake Forest College to Celebrate Proust

The final project that husband-and-wife artistic team Deborah Moss
and Edward Lam collaborated on before Lam’s death earlier this year will
be on display in Toronto this weekend at Nuit Blanche, the annual
all-night arts festival.The Somnambulist is made of large acrylic panels that feature passages from Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, both of which express feelings about the night, with each letter set in Swarovski crystals.

Doesn't this sound intriguing? Hemingway and Proust, a duo that doesn't immediately connote a partnership or indeed any relationship.

Read to the bottom of the article for how the pair chose the authors and what they visitors would react.

The all -night festival Nuit Blanche is held in many cities across the globe.